victorsra wrote:As we are already in 2017, any news about who will be to host the 2021 WRWC?

With AFL and NRL moving to have women's leagues, it would be good to see it in Australia. Brisbane groups phase, Sydney playoffs.

USA is cool too, but not sure about the attendances.

Italy would be nice too, but it would be the 4th in a row in Europe.

In a word, no. World Rugby have never managed to nominate a host for the next World Cup until after the previous one - no idea why, other than the fact that they really need to ensure that the host would be competitive - and a ideally automatic qualifier.

Realistically I think we can forget Australia as there no real interest in women's XVs (which is in decline faced with sevens) or New Zealand who plead rampant poverty whenever the subject is raised (unless Dr Farah Palmer can find a cure).

I think, unless the tournament revisits a previous host, it does (as you suggest) come down to USA or Italy. Both will have good potential venues, but both will also have question marks over crowds, and also possibly TV coverage. However interesting outside bets for 2021, given their participation this time, might be Japan or Hong Kong - especially the latter.

I thought that Italy draws good crowds for the 6 Nations? Also half of the teams in the 2017 world cup are from Europe so it will be easy/cheap for supporters to travel to Italy.

I hope in an italian bid too. Veneto is our main rugby region and it's the land of Venezia (Venice), so it would be a good touristic venue. Veneto has many beaches on the sea (WRWC is usually in august/september) and some excellent art destinations like Padova (a rugby town) or, a bit more distant, Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet.An other option could be Tuscany, even more enjoyable for tourists; Florence and the near Prato have a decent amount of rugby fans.But as far as now I never heard about an interest by the italian federation on hosting the WRWC

According to http://www.ticketmaster.ie/promo/wu4x0j/the tickets selling is going quite well, even if not amazingly I've checked just few off the options: one of the two fields on day one is sold out and the final's Kingspan stadium (18,000 seats) is already more than an half sold

Canalina, Spain played two more games: a Spain XV-Wales XV without 7s players before W6N (0-39) and a game against a Madrid regional team including some División de Honor Iberdrola foreign stars in late March as you can see in messages above (53-7).